On Vi, 04 mar 11, 15:38:32, Freeman wrote: > > then, at the root prompt, type > > GDM3 > > If that doesn't work, maybe you have an older version of Debian, so type > > GDM $ apt-file search bin/GDM $ (I have lenny, squeeze, wheezy and sid in my sources.list) Even in lower-case, I doubt it's a good ideea to run gdm/gdm3 "by hand", but rather via the init script: /etc/init.d/gdm start /etc/init.d/gdm3 start But this is already done on boot if gdm is installed, so the problem must be somewhere else. Without any evidence I would assume the most common to be: - the Desktop task was unselected by mistake during the install - problems starting X, but at least gdm (no idea about gdm3) would have presented the user with a more or less helpful error message. - problems installing packages (but in our case the OP got as far as the login prompt, so I would exclude it) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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